The weeks that followed were hard on everybody. There was nothing too complex in the tasks performed by peoples of the Bee Empire and the Naregan Kingdom, but the last months drained resources of both countries and it showed.
The numbers of food and materials shown to me by the system were at all times low. Food wasn't too much of a concern yet, but the need to equip and send out more bees in a hurry, together with several wars back to back, hit the materials stash badly. Another thing that affected it was the rapid industrial growth I had pushed for.
It was repaid as many mechas that helped us expand even faster and gather even more resources than before, but it would take time for the investments to pay off.
Just like it would take time to fully purify the Bee Empire from the metal-eaters, and even more time to purify other countries—the countries which weren't at their best even before things went from bad to worse.
